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The Saint Boromeo family's fleet was also there to search for the Holy Casket. Now that Ye Xiao had set off, there was no reason for Theresa and her group of Saint priests to remain in the city on vacation.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the search team dispatched by the Holy Fleet.

But what exactly are they fighting?

Ye Xiao was puzzled. The giant tentacle certainly didn't come from Ella. He looked down at the black dog beside him, and as expected, the black dog trembled, bared its teeth, and let out a startled growl from its throat, "Damn it, how did that guy get to this island too!?"

"Do you recognize that tentacle?"

Ye Xiao asked.

The black dog turned its head and looked at Ye Xiao anxiously, "Get away from that place! I don't know what you're looking for in the west, but I suggest you go back to the city with those dwarf humans now."

"Hey, what do you mean by 'dwarf human'!"

Chloe tapped the floor with her staff. "You can forget about Captain and Xiaozao, but Fisher and I aren't short... Hmm? Fisher?"

She looked to her side in astonishment, only to find that the maid Fisher, who was usually so unremarkable, had vanished without a trace.

"Fisher? Fisher!? Chesia, Fisher is gone!"

Chloe's scream drew the attention of everyone else as well.

"Strange? Wasn't she just here?"

Cheshire was surprised when a hand suddenly reached out from behind and patted her shoulder.

"what!!!"

Startled, Chesia almost flew up. Still shaken, she turned around and saw Fisher, the teammate she had been searching for, appear behind her like a ghost, her eyes, with faint dark circles under them, staring at her silently.

"Fisher...Fisher, when did you get behind me?"

"Captain, I'm leaving."

Fisher simply said it.

"At this time? So sudden..."

Chesia clutched her chest to steady herself, then noticed the enormous tentacles battling countless beams of holy light in the distance. "Wait a minute, could that be your employer's target?!"

Fisher nodded.

"employer?"

Beside them, Ye Xiao leaned over curiously and asked, "Aren't you guys a team?"

Fisher was only a temporary addition.

Chesia held up one finger.

"Actually, to be precise, we saw her starving to death on the roadside a few days ago."

Xiao Zao added, "We gave her something to eat, and she said she wanted to repay us for completing a mission, meow."

Fisher nodded again, then slightly opened his mouth as if to say something.

But Ye Xiao waited for a few seconds and still didn't hear her say anything.

She paused for a moment, then pulled a small notebook from her pocket, flipped through a few pages, and said weakly, "...Rule number three: Be grateful and repay kindness."

"..."

Ye Xiao suddenly seemed to understand why this guy usually didn't talk.

"So after helping you complete this task, she'll go back to her original task?"

Ye Xiao scratched his head, wondering if the maid had actually done anything in the mission.

"Yes, one less person has returned to town."

Xiao Zao said dejectedly.

"Why are you looking so dejected? It's not like we're gathering people to go back and throw a banquet."

Chloe patted Little Algae on the head, "The important thing is for us to get out of here as soon as possible."

"I apologize for interrupting you, sirs. I saw you were discussing something, so I didn't say anything until now."

However, at that moment, Torin interjected.

With a somewhat complicated expression, he pointed to the tentacles flailing wildly in the distance, "...The way back to the city is over there."

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Assembled Pirates

Upon hearing Torin's words, Chloe's face immediately fell.

"Chesia... how about we stay on the mountain for a couple of days instead of going back?"

It wasn't that Chloe was cowardly, but those tentacles, as tall as mountains, were something that an ordinary adventure team like theirs couldn't handle.

When traveling, it's natural for a normal person to think about staying away from unknown dangers.

"Hmph, foolish mortals,"

The black dog standing nearby said, "Now that this guy has shown himself, does he think he can hide in the middle of nowhere and not be affected?"

Ye Xiao had previously explained to everyone that the evil god possessing the village chief's daughter had been sealed inside this black dog, so her sudden speech was not too surprising.

However, she only seems to speak in a human voice when she is specifically mocking others, so that the latter can understand that she is cursing. Once she gets emotional, she will turn into a barking madman.

But of course, her barking wasn't because she liked it; it was just that if she didn't consciously and attentively try to speak human language, she would use the language of the body she was attached to.

Therefore, her mocking remark to Chloe was naturally delivered in perfect punctuation, leaving Chloe with a helpless expression. "No way, does that mean I have to go no matter what?"

"Let's set off and save the world, meow!"

Xiao Zao held half a piece of bread and waved excitedly.

"Like an idiot."

Chloe covered her forehead.

“I think it would be better if Mr. Ye and Miss Fisher went there together, since they are both going there.”

Chesia said, "There might be some risks, but we're not going there to fight. We just need to gather intelligence, rather than sitting on the mountain waiting to die without knowing anything."

Seeing that Chesia had made her decision, Chloe stopped objecting. "Alright, Chesia, if you've decided."

Since they've chosen Chesia as their captain, their team must stick together through thick and thin.

The two villagers who were originally supposed to be separate guides for Ye Xiao and Checia also chose to go together.

Because they were also eager to find out the situation there so that they could report back to the village and help the villagers make decisions about seeking refuge or other matters.

So, this large group of people descended the mountain and headed towards the location where the giant tentacles were fighting the Holy Army.

On the way, Ye Xiao asked Agnes to point out the location, and as expected, it was indeed in the same direction as the tentacle.

When Agnes arrived yesterday, she was pointing west, but now she's pointing back. Does that mean that the Dark Shepherd and Effie are also moving eastward into the city?

And to run into Theresa's Holy Army by sheer coincidence was incredibly careless.

Ye Xiao was puzzled, but in any case, this might allow him to find the other party sooner than expected.

……

As the group traveled several miles through the dense forest, a chilling atmosphere gradually filled the air, and many weak demonic creatures were fleeing rapidly all around.

The black dog being led was actually the one who least wanted to get close to this place, but unfortunately, she had no choice.

But by the time everyone got closer to the source of the commotion, the fighting seemed to have subsided.

The dense thicket blocked out the sun, so Chesia and the others might not be able to see clearly what was happening in the distance from below. However, Ye Xiao could see from the crows circling high in the sky that the giant tentacle was twitching and slowly retracting to the ground.

Finished?

Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow and, taking advantage of the fact that the group was still several miles away, sent the crows down to the ground to check.

The ground was riddled with craters, and corpses and limbs were scattered everywhere in the blood-soaked mud, a testament to the ferocity of the battle that had just taken place.

In the surrounding dense forest, some wounded Templar Knights were bandaging their wounds. It seemed that the Templars had won, but at a considerable cost.

Aside from the wounded Templar Knights, a large contingent of Templar troops was setting up camp on the other side of the forest. Judging from their relatively intact equipment, these should be the main force that had come from nearby. Theresa could even be seen talking to another Templar elder.

Seeing this scene, Ye Xiao roughly pictured it in his mind.

Theresa's search plan was probably based on her own sense of the Holy Regalia. She commanded the main force to leave the city and head in one direction, while several scout teams were sent out to explore the way ahead.

It was like a conscious net closing in step by step, and the scout squads were like tentacles extending from the main force. No matter which direction the Dark Shepherd fled, he could not avoid touching one of them.

As expected, one of the scout squads encountered the enemy, and the main force arrived to provide support during the fierce battle, which became the battle they had just witnessed.

In the very center of the battlefield was a huge, dark crater of silt, from which the tentacle retracted.

But when the crow landed on the mud, its claws reached into a huge hole beneath the mud, and the tentacle probably crawled down into this hole.

This is somewhat different from the characteristics of Ayra's tentacles—Ayra's tentacles are much stranger; they can grow huge bodies from a thin layer of living soil, as if that dark soil were some kind of spacetime rift.

But Ella herself cannot burrow into the mud, or more accurately, Ella's body cannot. Neither can the familiars or corrupted beings she controls. Only things born from the land of life can move freely in that ocean of mud—and so far, it seems that only those black tentacles, which even Ella herself doesn't know whether to be "creatures" or what they are.

In any case, this is different from the giant tentacle that everyone saw earlier. That giant tentacle needed to reside in the real world and had a physical home; it had to make a hole to extend out of the ground.

As for these black, similar-looking silts, they are not actually living soil. From observation, they seem to be just ordinary silt from the seabed.

Ye Xiao then instructed Ella to disintegrate the body of a crow familiar, transforming it into several tiny, earthworm-like tentacles that burrowed into the deep black silt, hoping to use this to find the source of the creature.

He then used the crows to observe the corpses around him and discovered that apart from the distinctively marked Templar soldiers in silver armor, the others fighting the Templars were not the cloaked, furtive Dark Templars he had expected, but rather a group of pirates dressed in all sorts of different clothes.

How dare a bunch of pirates go against the Holy Temple?

Ye Xiao was puzzled, and the pirates' clothing was not uniform, so they didn't seem to be from the same group.

Someone has brought these pirate gangs together.

Ye Xiao pondered for a moment. The Dark Shepherd had previously demonstrated his ability to brainwash Templar Knights, so it should indeed be easier to brainwash a group of pirates with weak wills.

But those Dark Shepherds probably didn't arrive on this island much faster than them, so the speed at which they gathered manpower was a bit too fast.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Girl Who Came to My Door

Despite many unanswered questions, Ye Xiao's group was almost at the other end of the battlefield.

Thanks to the advance reconnaissance from the crows, Ye Xiao, having regained his senses, informed everyone that the battle in the distance had ended.

This relieved Chesia and the others, at least for the time being, they no longer had to worry about the enormous tentacles.

As for Ye Xiao's explanation of the investigative methods, it was something like using a detective familiar.

Chesia naturally wouldn't ask in detail about this, since everyone has some abilities that need to be kept secret. Knowing that it's a reconnaissance ability is enough; there's no need to dig deeper.

"You mean the Boromeo family is also on the other side of the forest?"

After listening to Ye Xiao's account, Chloe frowned and said, "Chesia, I think we should stop here for now and avoid meeting them."

"Aren't you also from the Holy See?"

Ye Xiao asked curiously, "Why do you seem so wary of them?"

“I am from the Holy Temple of Loren. I would rather be with you than with those old-fashioned and corrupt Holy City families.”

Chloe waved her hand, "Putting everything else aside, they'll definitely find a reason to cause trouble if they see Chesia. How can I let my partner meet someone who poses a threat to her?"

"Moreover, I heard that the three major families of the Holy City have some reservations about the Holy Maiden. They are a bunch of cancers. They even dare to question the chosen Holy Maiden. If they didn't have the power to speak in the Holy City, our Loren Church would be the first to burn them as heretics."

"I feel like I heard something really amazing, meow."

Little Zao held the bread in her two little hands and suddenly opened her eyes wide.

"You just happen to be quick-witted at this crucial moment."

Chloe patted Xiaozao on the head.

While everyone was talking, Ye Xiao glanced at Agnes out of the corner of his eye and found that she still looked dazed.

Even though her family members were nearby, she didn't react by trying to run away or call for help.

"Has she really gone mad?" Ye Xiao was a little worried. He tugged at the rope, and Agnes obediently raised her hand and pointed back to the west.

"Okay, looks like he's not completely stupid yet," Ye Xiao nodded, then suddenly paused.

Wait a minute, why is it pointing west again?

They had just come from the west towards the east side of the city. Agnes had been pointing east the whole time, but suddenly she pointed west. Such a big change, doesn't it mean... Effie is nearby?